Combined paper-weight, receptacle, and pincushion.



PATBNTED-OOT. 20, 1903-.-

No. 741,882. j

s. T. BUGKHAM. COMBINED PAPER WEIGHT, REGEPTAGLE, AND PINGUSHION.

'AP PLIOATION FILED MAR. 19. 1903. I

1T0 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOH ATTORNEY are. 741,882.

NITED STATES,

Patented October 20, 1903.

ATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN r. BUOKI-I'AM, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 741,882, dated October 20, 1903.

Application filed March 19,1903. Serial No. 148,513. (No model.)

To aZZ whmn it may concern:

Beit known that I, STEPHEN T. BUoKHAM,a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State.

of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Paper- Weight, Receptacle,and Pincushi0n,of which the following is a specification.

My invention comprises a piucushion, a receptacle for paper-fasteners, stamps, eyelets, &c., and a paper-weight. The combination constitutes a very simple, compact, and useful device for the desk, table, dressing-case, and wherever else its contents are used. The following is a full description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the exterior features of the device; Fig. 2, a vertical half-section of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a half-setion of Fig. 4; Fig. 4, a plan or birds-eye view of a modification of Fig. 1. Each figure shows essential features of the device, as 'A, pincushion; B, receptacle; 0, channel; D, outer wall; E, inner wall; F, blank or closed portion of channel; G, section of pincushion.

The novelty of my invention consists in constructing the device of Wood or plastic, molten, or other material,with a body of suitable shape to admit of an oval depressed receptacle in its central portion and a channel partly (see Figs. 3 and 4:, F) around said receptacle of sufficient width and depth, into which may be forced a pincushion until its upper surface is nearly flush with that of the body and to admit of pins or needles of ordinary length being stuck to their full length therein. The sides or walls of said channel terminate solidly at the bottom of the stand. It now may be observed that we'have a stand formed of a cup within a cup, the inner one being partly surrounded by a cushion and to serve as an open receptacle. The pincushion is made of suitable material in ring-like form of sufiicient thickness and depth to fill the space between the walls of the two cups into which it is to be forced, leaving but a slight finishing portion projecting at the top. Thus the stand is completed. Figs. 3 and 4 show a modification which consists in diminishing the circumference of the channel and cushion to one-half, more or less, thus leaving a front entrance to the receptacle freely open, as shown.

I am aware that stands have been made with a pincushion attached in the central por-' tion of the top surface and having holes of diiferent sizes surrounding the cushion. When thus made, the entire cushion is exposed and greatly adds to the bulk of the device. The holes only serve for certain purposes.

-What I claim as new and as my invention, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a combined paper weight, receptacle and pincushion, consisting of an integral stand or body having the upper central portion depressed or cupped out to form an oval receptacle, and a channel partly surrounding said receptacle for receiving and permanently housing a pincushion suitably constructed therefor, substantially as shown and described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, the 17th dayof March, A. D. 1903.

STEPHEN T. BUCKHAM. Witnesses:

J. M. KEEP,

A. L. VAN NEss. 

